我的第一个python程序－新浪新闻阅读器

#get news from www.sina.com
#and store them in different directories named by different categories
import urllib,os,sys
def getPage(url):
    try:
        webfile = urllib.urlopen(url)
        content = webfile.read()
        webfile.close
        return content
    except:
        print 'Can/'t find the page requred!Or disconnected!'
       
   
def downtolocal(content,filename,target):
    os.chdir('C:'+os.sep+'sina_news')
    if os.path.isdir(target)==False:
        os.mkdir(target)
        print 'Successful make directory:',target
        os.chdir(target)
        f=open(filename,"w")
        f.write(content)
        f.close
    else:
        os.chdir(target)
        if os.path.isfile(filename)==True:
            f=open(filename,"a")
        else:
            f=open(filename,"w")
            f.write(content)
            f.close
def category(content):
    if content.find('<!--新闻开始-->')!=-1:
        pos=content.find('<!--新闻开始-->')
        content=content[pos:]
        pos=content.find('[')
        content=content[pos:]
        while pos!=content.find('<!--新闻结束-->'):
           cat=content[content.find('[')+1:content.find(']')]
           content=content[content.find('<a href=')+8:]
           realurl=content[:content.find('target=_blank>')-1]
           content=content[content.find('>')+1:]
           filename=content[:content.find('</a>')]
           downtolocal(news(realurl),filename+'.txt',cat) 
           if content.find('[')!=-1:
                pos=content.find('[')
                content=content[pos:]
           else:
                break
    else:
        print 'This is not a regular news page.'
   
  
def news(url):
    date=getPage(url)
    if date.find('<div id=article>')!=-1:
        pos=date.find('<div id=article>')
        date=date[pos:]
        buff=''
        while date.find('<p>')!=-1:
           pos=date.find('<p>')
           date=date[pos+3:]
           next=date.find('<')
           buff=buff+date[:next]
           date=date[next:]
           pos=date.find('>')+1
           date=date[pos:]
           next=date.find('<')
           while next!=date.find('</p>'):
                date=date[next:]
                pos=date.find('>')+1
                date=date[pos:]
                next=date.find('<')
           else:
                buff=buff+date[:next]
           return buff
    else:
        print 'This is not a text news page!'
        buff='This is not a text news page!'
        return buff

if os.path.exists('C:'+os.sep+'sina_news')==False:
    os.mkdir('C:'+os.sep+'sina_news')  
category(getPage('http://news.sina.com.cn/news1000/index.shtml'))

这个程序是我接触python的第二天写出来的东西，有很多幼稚的地方，但是它让我了解到了python的易用，简洁。后来一直在用python写测试，python写测试真的很适合，我觉得。但是python应该还有更大的用处。看到很多网站都是用Python搞出来的，比如现在很火的豆瓣。如果写小程序，让我选择C++或者是python的话，我一定会选择python.